Powerless Christianity
By Eugene R. Schlesinger
I gave my back to those who struck me
and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard;
I did not hide my face
from insult and spitting.
—Isaiah 50:6
Let the same mind be ... Read More...
From the Archives: Paschal Mystery
As we, with Jesus, set our faces toward Jerusalem this Holy Week so that we may "enter with joy upon the contemplation of those mighty acts whereby has given us life and immortality...through Jesus Christ" (BC... Read More...
Palm Sunday and Death’s Defeat
By Clint Wilson
When they look on the one whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. Zechariah 12:10
Today is Palm Sunday, the day we stand at the edge of the ... Read More...
On the precipice of Holy Week
Palm Sunday is to me the most disorienting liturgy of the year.
Paschal mystery
Liturgy closes the distance between our own time and the events of salvation history, and our identification with those events is an essential part of how this takes place.